============== URMASSN'2011 ===============
Submission deadline has been moved to April 29, 2011.
(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this posting.)
First International Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning
and Multi-Agent Systems for Sensor Networks URMASSSN'11
to be held in conjunction with the 11th European Conference
on Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning
with Uncertainty (ECSQARU 2011)
June 28 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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Sensor networks are increasingly seen as a solution to the problem of
performing wide-area monitoring and surveillance within urban,
environmental, security and defensive scenarios. Sensors distributed
over a wide area, communicate through the network to ensure monitoring
and control of the area covered. Multiple sensors observe the
environment and then exchange their probability estimates (for the
occurrence of an event) with each other. Sensors are able to fuse the
evidence in such received messages, and compute the probability of
occurrence of the relevant event. Negotiation processes enable
agreement on the nature of the event.
On the one hand, the distributed nature of these networks, and the
increasing expectation of autonomous behaviour from the sensors leads
naturally to a multi-agent approach to analysis, design and
development of sensor networks. Further technical challenges include
decentralised control, co-ordination, resource allocation, which are
mainstream research within the agent community. On the other hand, the
nature of sensor networks leads to possible failures of interactions
and noisy communication, which calls for uncertainty reasoning and
data and knowledge fusion approaches to information exchange and
decision making in sensor networks. Furthermore, the increasing
availability of sensor network data, and the need to make use of it in
real-time for informed decision making, requires the development of
intelligent agents that can autonomously acquire knowledge from these
networks, and perform information processing tasks such as fusion,
inference and prediction.
This workshop aims to explore the synergy of agent technologies, data
and knowledge fusion and uncertainty reasoning for design and
implementation of sensor networks and also for the processing of
sensor network data and decision support. Topics of interest include:
Agent-based architectures for sensor networks
Agent-based simulation of sensor networks
Organization structures for sensor networks
Sensor network management (including game theory, negotiation and market approaches).
Reasoning with uncertainty and failure in sensor networks
Reliable communication in sensor networks
Coordination and planning
Adaptive and learning agents for sensor networks
Emergent behaviour
Data and knowledge fusion and aggregation within sensor networks
Reasoning with incomplete or uncertain information
Security and trust in sensor networks
Applications and real-world deployments of sensor networks
Reliability, efficiency, and fault tolerance
Invited Speaker
Nick Jennings, Southampton University
Organisers
Virginia Dignum, TU Delft
Frank Dignum, Utrecht University
Frances Brazier, TU Delft
Paul Miller, Queen University Belfast
Han la Poutré, Utrecht University and CWI
Martijn Warnier, TU Delft
Programme Committee
Salem Benferhat (Lens, France)
Laurence Cholvy (Onera, France)
Jurriaan van Diggelen (TNO, NL)
Zhi Jin (Institute of Mathematics, Beijng, China
Jérôme Lang (IRIT, France)
Churn-Jung Liau (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Weiru Liu (Queen University Belfast, UK)
José Manuel Molina López (Univ. Carlos III, Spain)
Thomas Meyer (Meraka Institute, South Africa)
Julian Padget (University of Bath, UK)
Henri Prade (IRIT, France)
Juan Antonio Rodriguez (IIIA, CSIC, Spain)
Rainer Unland (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Important dates
*Extended* Submission deadline: 29 April 2011
Notifications: 13 May 2011
Camera Ready: 27 May 2011
Workshop: 28 June 2011
Paper preparation and submission
Papers must not exceed 12 pages in length in the standard LNCS/LNAI
conference proceedings format and must be submitted as PDF files
through the EasyChair submission system. Submitted papers will be
evaluated by peer review on the basis of originality, significance,
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Post publication
Special issue in the Journal of Multi Agent and Grid Systems (MAGS, IOS Press)
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